South End House Association records.

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South End House Association records.

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The records of the South End House Association (1909-1944) contain the organization's by-laws, an annual report for 1937-1938, and balance sheets for the years 1909, 1917, and 1918. These sheets provide an account of funding the Association received and how it was allocated. They also include summaries of long-range financial planning. Generally, funds were received from individual donations, special funds, and endowments. Also included are two informational pamphlets on the South End House (published by the Association), as well as an article written by William Jewett Tucker and published in The Atlantic Monthly (May, 1917). Also found in this series is a book published in 1923 and written by Robert Woods, The Neighborhood in Nation-Building. This volume includes a frontispiece portrait of the author, a detailed index, and several appendices regarding the settlement house movement.

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926

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William Jewett Tucker was the ninth president of Dartmouth College; he served in that capacity from 1893 to 1909. He was born in Griswold, Conn. in 1839. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1861 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1866. In 1875 he received his DD. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1878 to 1909. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1926. From the description of Papers, 1893-1909. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122590411 Ministe...

Woods, Robert Archey, 1865-1925

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Settlement house worker and sociologist. From the description of South End House appeal, 1919 Aug. 25, Boston, to the Misses Kimball. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172616303 ...

South End House (Boston, Mass.)

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Part of a national settlement house movement during the Progressive Era in America, the South End House opened its doors in Boston, Massachusetts, as the Andover House in 1891. Its founder, Dr. William J. Tucker, was a Congregational minister and social reformer who taught at the Andover Theological Seminary located in Andover, Massachusetts. Dr. Tucker immediately hired Robert A. Woods to act as the house's director. Woods was very involved in progressive reform movements on the national level ...